People Quotes

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.